Yayoi Kusama Museum
The Yayoi Kusama Museum is a contemporary art museum in Tokyo, Japan, dedicated to the work of the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. The museum is located in the Shinjuku Ward, in the western suburbs of Tokyo. The Museum is the principal project of the Yayoi Kusama Foundation.
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The Yayoi Kusama Museum is a contemporary art museum in Tokyo, Japan, dedicated to the work of the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. The museum is located in the Shinjuku Ward, in the western suburbs of Tokyo. The Museum is the principal project of the Yayoi Kusama Foundation.
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The five-floor building was designed by the Japanese architecture firm Kume Sekkei. Construction was completed in 2014, and it opened in 2017 with an inaugural exhibition of 600 of Kusama's works. One floor of the museum is dedicated to one of Kusama's infinity room installations, titled Pumpkins Screaming About Love Beyond Infinity. The museum admits a fixed number of visitors per day, based on timed tickets. In 2018, a year after its opening, the museum was rated number one on Time Outs global "do list".
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• Name — Yayoi Kusama Museum • Location — 107 Bentencho, Shinjuku City, Tokyo, Japan • Website — https: yayoikusamamuseum.jp/en
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The museum has published a number of books about its special exhibitions: • Yayoi Kusama Foundation Inaugural Exhibition: Creation is a Solitary Pursuit, Love Is What Brings You Closer To Art (2017) • Here, Now, I Have Reached The Grandest Start of My Life (2018) • I Want You To Look at my Prospects for the Future: Plants and I (2018) • Here, Another Night Comes from Trillions of Light Years Away: Eternal Infinity (2019) • Spirits of Aggregation (2019) • Zero Is Infinity - Zero and Yayoi Kusama (2020) • The Vision of Fantasy That We Have Never Seen is This Splendor (2020) • Midway Between Mystery and Symbol: Yayoi Kusama’s Monochrome (2021) • A Poem in My Heart (2022) • Every Day I Pray For Love (2022) • Yayoi Kusama’s Self-Obliteration / Psychedelic World (2023) • Visionary Colors (2023) • Yayoi Kusama: Portraying The Figurative (2024) • I Would Overcome Death And Go On Living (2024) • Reverberation From The Universe (2025)
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- 1.McCurry, Justin. Avant-garde legend Yayoi Kusama gets her own museum in Tokyo. 30 September 2017.
- 2.Magazine, Wallpaper*. A new Tokyo museum designed by Kume Sekkei brings us closer to the art of Yayoi Kusama. Wallpaper*. 23 November 2017.
- 3.Tokio, Christoph Neidhart. Poppig, bunt - und ausweglos. 15 February 2019.
- 4.Blahut, Chelsea. Yayoi Kusama’s Museum in Tokyo to Open Oct. 1. www.architectmagazine.com. The journal of the American Institute of Architects.
- 5.Sulcas, Roslyn. Yayoi Kusama to Open Her Own Museum in Tokyo. 15 August 2017.
- 6.yayoi kusama opens museum in tokyo, a world of infinite polka-dots. designboom | architecture & design magazine. 3 October 2017.
- 7.EDT, David Farley On 6/27/19 at 9:33 AM. The 8 Best Museums in Tokyo. Newsweek. 27 June 2019.
- 8.New museum in Tokyo provides a home for Kusama's enigmatic, fascinating works. Stars and Stripes.
- 9.The 50 best things to do in the world right now. Time Out Worldwide.
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